When we did the pilot, I sort of pictured this guy pirating a signal and then this story unfolding of him building this satellite and these robots and watching these bad movies.
Then a friend of Jim's suggested we make a theme song to explain the story, and this is where the Mads came from. Josh and I wrote it into the theme song.
Beanie and Cecil was the first cartoon I remember watching and I think there are analogies.
A lot of times when I sit down with the other comics and try to talk theory, they say I'm being too serious.